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The E-network Research and Development (ENRD) is a non-profit organization run by Volunteers working in the ICT field. Currently there are 30 volunteers associated with The organization. Most of the volunteers are university teachers and professional Working in the field of ICT. It was formally established in March 2004. The main strength of this organization is to bring tighter several fields of research and development that can immediately benefit to the rural communities.

Expert IT professionals founded this organization to create and transfer knowledge on E-village and E-governance throughout the country. The ENRD strongly believes that E-village is going to be the most effective instrument and tools in 21st century for the development of rural areas of Nepal and other developing  countries. Because of this reason, ENRD is working together with the Nepal Wireless Networking Project run and is owned by Himanchal Higher Secondary School in western Nepal for implementing E-village Programme through wireless technology. It has already shown its expertise on localizing and providing training on sophisticated technology in simpler form to villagers for getting its real benefit. For example, community people are using  net meeting , VoIP Phone, Remote Desktop Tools, Nepali single interface web based portal for delivering social services such as local e- commerce, tele-teaching ,  tele medicine. Moreover, ENRD's activities have shown its influence in National ICT policy and regulation. By  the efforts of counseling  and consulting  of Nepal Wireless Project and ENRD team, Nepal Government has de-licensed the Industrial, Scientific and Medical ( ISM) bands using 2.4 Ghz and  5.8  frequencies.

The ENRD is going to implement PAN Localization Project Phase II with the collaboration of Country Component (CC), Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya MPP under the supervision of Regional Project Leader (RPL) which is funded by IDRC Canada from October 2007.

The ENRD/Nepal Wireless Project has successfully  establish  22 telecenters 14 in Myagdi and Kaski District, 7 in Makwanpur  District and 1 in Rasuwa District  using wireless Wi-Fi  connectivity for remote rural parts of Nepal. From these telecenters, e-mail, inter-net, VoIP Phone, Tele-teaching and Tele- medicine services are provided to the community people. They can enjoy the ICT and link with global E-village.